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Released
2019 · FILM

K-12

When the bell rings, you must be in your assigned seat…

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Runtime
92 min
FantasyHorrorMusical

Synopsis

A girl named Cry Baby is sent to a sleepaway school that conceals a disturbing environment beneath an elaborate exterior. She has a best friend who defends her when other students, whose minds are controlled by the principal and his staff, bully her. With assistance from magical companions they encounter and an Angelic Spirit Guide, they acquire the ability to resist the school's aggressive patriarchal conditioning.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Emilie AubryShot by Josh MckieScored by Michael KeenanDesigned by Fernanda Guerrero

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$359K

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$359K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $303K

Peak 81 theaters

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